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Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: Letters to the Editor
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Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “St. Paul’s First Shot Veterans: The Crew of the U.S.S. Ward and the Attack on Pearl Harbor”
Jane McClureSt. Paul’s First Shot Veterans: The Crew of the U.S.S. Ward and the Attack on Pearl Harbor Author: Jane McClure The U.S.S. Ward, a destroyer, served in combat for precisely three years, December 7, 1941 to December 6, 1944. Manned by naval reservists from St. Paul, the Ward saw combat…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “Help, Housing ‘Almost Impossible to Find’: A Single Mother and World War II”
Hilda RacheyHelp, Housing ‘Almost Impossible to Find’: A Single Mother and World War II Author: Hilda Rachey The trials of a young, single, working mother of two in St. Paul during World War II. She had to scramble time and again to find housing and child care (both often inadequate), deal…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “100 Years of Helping People: Family Service and Its Legacy of Leadership”
Tom Kelley100 Years of Helping People: Family Service and Its Legacy of Leadership Author: Tom Kelley Family Service, Inc., a social service agency, began in St. Paul in 1892 and has lasted one hundred years. Beginning as Associated Charities, an information clearinghouse for the coordination of private charity for…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “What’s Historic About This Site? St. Paul’s Union Depot”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyWhat’s Historic About This Site? St. Paul’s Union Depot The Union Depot opened in 1923, after the railroad age had peaked. The last passenger train stopped there in 1970. It has been searching for a purpose ever since. It is very fine nevertheless; “a simple, rather severe example of the…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyAnne Bosanko Green, One Woman’s War: Letters Home from the Women’s Army Corps (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989). Jody Barret Litoff, David C. Smith, Barbara Woodall Taylor, and Charles E. Taylor, eds., Miss You: The World War II Letters of Barbara Woodall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: Letters to the Editor
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Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “The 150th Anniversary of the Naming of the City: St. Paul and the Rush to Settlement—1840 to 1880
Virginia Brainard KunzThe 150th Anniversary of the Naming of the City: St. Paul and the Rush to Settlement—1840 to 1880 Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz St. Paul’s earliest years recounted by the dean of Ramsey County historians. The essential information and vital characters are all here: Father Galtier, the chapel and the name,…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “Who WAS Pigs Eye Parrant, Anyway?”
Ronald M. HubbsWho WAS Pigs Eye Parrant, Anyway? Author: Ronald M. Hubbs Everything that is known about St. Paul’s first settler, in less than two full pages. He was an illiterate, intemperate, ill-mannered and itinerant fur trader and whiskey seller who hung around Fort Snelling for a few years in the mid-…